Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 299, Decatur, Adams County, 21 December 1950 — Page 11

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■ r • ’ /!!*• ' - ■ JSNOLI MUHVf 1 Cta«* , I tSAj/MB I wa< ’ ° “ n d AOWWI aalecp YNBV J When 50 yearn before he had gone off to sleep * n J u * t m * th * temper, every - means that you can think us were ua e d to , wa h e him up. but without aucceax Bella were rung, and drums were beaten, and horns were sounded, and trumpets blown, without doing one particle of good. But what neither bells, nor drums, nor horns, nor trumpets could do. the little telephone up in the corner did. Because. you see. behind it were the little children. A Oh! That phone just tingled ail over with fun as it hept up a constant Tlng-a-ling! Brr-rr-r-rtng' Tmg-a-ltng • It knew Banta eouldn t stand that. And mire enough, it woke him up in. the middle of the afternoon. Banta looked at the clock, which stood at the foot of his bed. It was a wonderful timepiece. It not only told the hour of the day. but the day of the week, and the . month. ~L . . —3,- : He rubbed his eyes and looked again There wtoodjhe record Sunday. December M. Four -O'clock So he had slept only four hours' He turned over in bed and co 1 -, ered himself up and tried to go to sleep again, but It was useless The phone hadn't the slightest idea el Slewing that sleep to go on. It tang Incessantly. Santa couldn't sleep, so he roiled out of bed and looked for his boots He put on a short coat over his long dressing gown and a pair of slippers, and went out into the?

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SSU MS , , pine scented dining room As soon as he opoited the door the phone stopped ringing He called for hitwife. He cabled for Dando. No answer X Santa rushed out to the ban. Sleigh, reindeer, and. presents- all gone! No sign of Christmas any- ; where It all came over him as he went back to the house. The hundred* of thousands of dieappointed children that soon would awaken Christmas morning! He quickly reached for the telephone and bussed furiously for the operator "Hello? I'm Hants Claus Connect me with everybody. Al once!' Please rush. Thia Instant! Immediately"' Brrrr-rrr-rr-r-ritg* In every house and store and office, except tn the poor section and other such places, sounded the call, and fath-! era and mothers, and sisters and brothers and uncles and aunts, as! well as the children, heard the .message. ■ I

"Dear little children!" he said. "My wife has run off with my sleigh. And Dando. too! Taken all < your presents with her "Mrs. Claus doesn’t know whom the presents belong to. She will give them to all the beggars and sick children all Over the world. She has always said she would do it it she ever got the chance! _J_ "Dear children, won't you send me word that you will be wilting to go without your Christmas gift* this year? It shall never happen again. I promise!" Santa shouted so loud that no! only the fathers, mothers, uncles and aunta heard this unusual announcement. but It reached the ears of the newsboys and shoeshine boys and errand boys and street sweepers and one impudent little ' rascal threw up his cap and yelled. Three cheers for Mrs Claus!" and such a "Hurray" you never heard before and never WIN again. > . (To Ba Cssllnsedl

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!'„ ; I U,S. PlactMamei CxprtiiCkniliMi Jdea Mantf SANTA CLAUS. INDIANA; Bethlehem. Conn.; and Chriitmas. ' Fla., are a few of the more familiar i post officer which each "year handle | a flood of mail from senders wish j ing to obtain yuletide postmarks. Ailhsugh the federal pest office department has now | barred extra flourishes by local postmasters axing Christmas l symbols and mottoes, a town's own holiday name can still give that festive touch to a greeting or package of toys. Indiana's Santa Claus !s the only town_ so designated in the United : States The privilege is reserved to its post office by congressional act There is. however. Santa, Idaho There is also only one Christmas—the one in Florida—plus a Christmas Cove. Maine. iln the other hand, seven Befhlehems answer the seasonal roll call: they can be found in Connecticut. Georgia. Indiana. Kentucky. MaryLJatid, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania. The Bethiehenj, Conn, post office was one of several stations that figured in headlines recently on the use of especislly-deslgnvd cancellation stamps bearing the now-forbidden Christinas tree dec- : oration. The toah's potujlation is abou t 350 There are two Neels—to A'lrgtoia and Misseerl. Last year. Missouri's Nael peel eftiee reported of a record Xto.Oto pieces es Christmas mall—Pto for each es the town's residents. s Besides specific Christmas names that dot . the land there are doaens that call up Biblical or h. Uday associations. There is Advent, W Vs , for the Nativity. Kentucky has a Mary, and Oregon and Utah a Josephi_each. ; One Wiseman is found tn Alas- ' ka and another in Arkansax. The r third, it. may -be assumed, to-sto- ; Wisemantown. Ky There are five I Stars and four Shepherds. West , Virginia contributes Goodwill; Missourl. Peace Valley; and there is Jpy in Illinois. Kentucky. Missouri, and Texas. For the Christmas party. Terkey Is available to tour elates; Cranberry la throe. Kentaeky has a Mistletoe. Six stoles eoual an Evergreen: seven a Pine, and three s Holly. Louisiana comes up with Trees. Alabama w+th Candle; and to top the decorations, Pennsylvania has. I its Angels Kris Kringle Isn't Really Santa Claus Popular notion seems to imply that Kris Kringle Is a German term of endearment for Santa Claus Just what motivates this ' idea is not at all clear, since Kris i Kringle is really a modification of \ Christkind who, although endowed by German legend as a gift-giver, resembles Santa Claus not m the : least. Santa Claus, as we know him in America, never really caught on in Germany St. Nicholes comes aroupd on his Hturgioal feast gay p-~»t*mber « — with hie nneitets ' bulging with candy and huts and trinkets. Well and good, but German parents maintain, as did theii predecessors of the Reformation ! era. that the central 'Christmas. the blsth of jtoiis. should dominate the observances. Nor is Chnstkind depicted as the Infant Jesus himself, but rattier as his messenger and gift-bearer who comes to earth at Christmastime to bring happiness to good chil- . dren. The Christkind is usually - represented as a child dressed tn ' white robes, wearing a golden crown and having big. golden wings. f« I WaMBJ DOLLIES ALL . . . Barbara Johnsen (left) and Patricia Abel, both orphans, are to a virtual paradise, seated unit aa mauy playmales. The Mia, snare tbaa Ito of them, were dressed by vetonteer workers i tor dlstrlbnllsn to charitable ot sanitations a a Christmas gifts.

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